Today...April 1, 2013 - I Duane Townsend; announce my surrender. I lay down my arms against the present state of affairs....I walk away from the battlefield. I will not come to terms with my opposition, I will not sign any treaties, I will not seek recompense or give any. I am not defeated or have I conquered. I'm not calling this a stalemate either. I call this reaching a new level of awareness.

A new level of awareness has dawned. A remembering...that which we struggle against does indeed strengthen as our struggle intensifies. One can be consumed in the combat, ones life can become the carnage they wish to inflict, we can become the enemy we lob our bombs at....or worse, we can totally forget that the enemy we vow to defeat, to squash...to annihilate is us. "I have met the enemy and he is us"

Mammon, I walk away; not defeated but liberated. I walk away in the full understanding that you won't even notice my absence. War and poverty, I walk away; I'm sure you never knew I was waging a vehement battle against you. Government and religious fascism, I walk away; you're too entrenched in the bone marrow of humanity. You'll never be uprooted...you can only be transformed...the mass human immune system needs to be strengthened by transformation to rid us of your viral effects.

If we are reflections of each other. If we are one conscious entity with infinite perspectives and experiences. If no human is an island unto them-self. If we are connected in spirit, mind and expression then my retirement from the calamity of the mental-emotional battlefield will be reflected in the human experience of the whole. Maybe it is my righteous indignation of the present circumstances that further entrench them , maybe my outrage at the powers that be feeds their tyranny. My energy against those things saps ME, and energizes what I profess to oppose.

I will continue to share my thoughts, ideas and observances. What will change is the perspective those will emanate from. I will cease trying to spur others to action. I will retrain my voice from outrage to informative...from indignation to insight. More times than not, our power in any situation is not outward, it is inward. We don't change things so much by what we react to...but by how we change our perception...our perspective. When we stop raging and reacting about our lack of power, but ACT from our power.

When the British imposed a debilitating salt tax on India back in the 1940s. Gandhi simply walked to the sea to make his own salt. When Britain imposed a stifling textile tax in order to break India economically. Gandhi simply spun his own cloth. All Indians didn't join Gandhi in his independent efforts at self-sufficiency, but enough did and Britain broke. I've dawned on the realization that we don't need everyone, or even a majority to see our vision manifest. All that is required is a critical mass of humanity. That critical mass could be as low as 10% of people waking up. About 35 million in America...or 700 or so million in the world. As few as 10% who walk away from the battlefield, reclaim their energy and hold their vision. This is not the age of defeat. But conversely this isn't the age of overcoming...of vanquishing the wicked either. It is the age of transformation.

I have come to the recognition that this is the age of awakening. When the air inside the egg becomes toxic from the breathing of the baby chick inside, the chick doesn't rant against the shell or the bad air. It uses what it has (its beak) and breaks out.

The proverbial air in the world has gone bad, it's become toxic. Unlike the chick that breaks out...I'll use what I have and go inward, experience the toxicity of the world from my perspective of inner peace. No more tilting at windmills, no more trying to slay the shape shifting dragons. I remember that the windmills are powered by my energy...the dragons are born in me. The world is a projection of our inner psyche. The problem as I see it is that we have come to believe that others have power over us. That we are subservient to an economic and political system that ironically we have given over our power to. We have forgot that the power is ours, we can take it back. Going to war with 'the system', rattling our sabers at windmills that don't know or care whether we exist or not doesn't seem sane to me anymore.

I take my energy back...I become the change I want to see. I do that in confidence that there are others, my vision is not mine alone. It was given me by my ancestors. They are me and I am them.

Love your picture of the kitty! I've been using the "I surrender" mantra for a few years--it works! The word "surrender" is not even in A Course in Miracles, but "choice" or its derivations is noted 901 times. But I still find "surrender" helpful at times when I don't seem to be making the right choice.

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Jewellz

4/1/2013 06:53:15 pm

You move me with your words. These truly resonate in me..... Thank you my dear friend! x's and luv

YES!! Could you imagine a world in which everyone chose to do exactly the same. It's not impossible. As long as we have breath we can change things, first by changing what is within us and then by changing what we put our focus on. Much love. There is a reason why this is my favorite blog!

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Kimi Riegel

4/10/2013 11:30:20 pm

Each and every interaction is a decision. I have been asking questions. Curiousity. I have been criticized for not standing up - struggling with "right action". No action? Learning to say "I don't come to serve with you I come to transform with you."

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Duane TownsendObserver of myself and society. Manager of the Divine, and the profane of those mirrored phenomena. 'I AM'